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Yeesh. Comments like that make BA look bad compared to Japan or Singapore. It might be humid and hot and autocratic in Singapore, but their trains run on time and their government works hard to get nerds some nookie.
Yea, that’s right, the knee jerk elitist reactionaries here didn’t want any stinky diesel train clouding up their artisan village utopia.
How about some charming steam trains?
How about some charming steam trains?
Only if you could figure out a way to make them run on bottled smugness, emissions free of course. And the rail right of way would need to only go through "those places the workers all live".
Would it help if the steam train is to be called the Marin Orient Express?
Public transportation is great, but only if population density reaches a point where you can do your commuting in a streamlined manner.
Also, I don't mind BART, but DC's subway system must have some of the sorriest employees in existence. And about at least one major delay a week for a system not much bigger than BART.
Can't we just relocate the whole of Marin to Appalachia one night? The NIMBY jerks probably can't tell the difference.
"leaving his post as chief econonut"
About freaking time! Dude at www.davidlereahwatch.com
I SALUTE you! (What a relief for his mom)
A note to American friends on Patrick.net
Whatever happens,
for the love of god, forget about buying Canadian real estate. It's cold, the igloos are uncomfortable, we're overpriced now that the Canadian dollar trades at $1.50 US, there are too many caribou trampling front yards and penguins are not as good yard ornaments as flamingos.
Other than that, of course you're welcome to move here as long as you bring knee jerk liberal attitudes and accept socialized medicine, provincial transfer payments and refuse to support the war in Iraq.
Otherwise, please continue to support the real estate markets in Cancun and Cabo San Lucas as you are supposed to.
Would it help if the steam train is to be called the Marin Orient Express?
Yes. Yes, I think it would. And instead of coal, you can have it powered by "bottled sunshine". (Sorry Randy, I'm flashing back to a "buckets of instant sunshine" reference, but I think we want something less... critical?)
"but I think we want something less… critical?"
Time tested technology?
~60 years should be enough for testing; some physics forums suggest that power bottleneck is mostly the cooling system. So, the tender(?) car could be devoted to the cooling apparatus, and much of the locomotive body could be shielding. (Those things are heavy anyway.)
Only if you could figure out a way to make them run on bottled smugness, emissions free of course.
In that case, there would be an endless, bountiful supply of fuel in Marin! Make that the Bay Area in general! We could export it to the rest of the country.
It really begs the question, who the f&ck buys crap like that? For 600k-800k, why would you want to live there?
IMHO, Daly City runs neck and neck with Redwood City as "worst houses" on the market.
In all fairness Tony Snow had some health issues I sure hope none of us have to go through.
The psychological impact of having "Lie-reah" getting the boot has GOT to be damaging to just about everyone REIC related!
"If this darn doom and gloom media would lay off it then things could "get back to normal" just like DL has promised us!"
Oops!
Virtually anyone installed in his place will HAVE to be more factual and truthful. And did you get a load of the outfit he was finally able to land a job at? Move.com? WhoTF is that? Not GS that's for sure!
They actually have to get in front of parliament once a week and answer direct questions.
Ok, but wouldn't their words have a bit mroe weight if it was the head of government instead?
RE: heads of states answering to parliaments
Ok, but wouldn't their words have a bit more weight if it was the head of government instead?
Virtually anyone installed in his place will HAVE to be more factual and truthful.
I hear this guy's available:
Astrid -
if you can understand flocons de mais, you have progressed to cereal box bilinualism. That is a good start.
Okay, so it's fine that Learah is leaving the NAR and the mess they made in the RE market. But it's another thing to see crap like this from the article about his departure:
Blanche Evans, the editor of Realty Times, an online magazine for real estate professionals, said Lereah's outlook for the market is a reflection of his sunny disposition.
"That is part of his personality. He is one of the most bright and energetic people but that does not mean that he's a Pollyanna," said Evans, author of "Bubbles, Booms and Busts: Make Money in ANY Real Estate Market."
So Blanche (douchebag), as an ECONOMIST, his ECONOMIC analyses and predictions should all just be chalked up to being a happy-go-lucky guy? That's just great! Can we chalk up bin Laden's rage to having too much starch in his tighty-whities? C'mon, give me a break you douchebag!
"but that does not mean he's a Pollyanna"
No.... I wouldn't say Pollyanna. Worse than a useless j@rk-off he's dangerously stupid, but no.. definitely not Pollyanna.
SQT,
Congrats! Last summer I gave mine to my nephew (at 17 he's actually taller) so I'll need a new one this summer.
tsusiat,
I really did want to learn French. In fact, I took Intro to French twice, but couldn't advanced to French II.
Thank God(s) IB accepted Chinese as a foreign language!
More Bay Area retarded NIMBYism:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5785731?nclick_check=1
A battle over the fate of a large piece of Bayfront property is brewing, even though the city has received no formal proposal yet for the land.
For the past year, Cargill Salt has been conducting a community outreach program seeking residents' ideas of what to do with its 1,433-acre property where the company plans to phase out its industrial plant over the next few years.
In recent weeks, the environmental advocacy group Friends of Redwood City has launched its own outreach effort, encouraging residents to tell their elected leaders to maintain the land as open space and not turn it into commercial and residential development.
"We feel it should continue to be for natural and industrial uses," Friends member Cathy Moyer said Thursday.
...This is an opportunity for our generation to leave a legacy for future residents of Redwood City to experience the beauty of open spaces and wildlife," he wrote.
Notice how it's okay to use the land for "natural and industrial" uses, but not RESIDENTIAL use. Now isn't that just more BS, let's stop RESIDENTIAL development to keep property values up?
Also, what the f%ck "beauty of open spaces" is there in that part of the Bay? Last I checked, it's just industrial wasteland east of 101, with a view of concrete and the East Bay. I say let them build another Foster City there. Damn NIMBY-losers.
Astrid -
In Vancouver, maybe Mandarin would be more useful anyway....
I really did want to learn French. In fact, I took Intro to French twice, but couldn’t advanced to French II.
Most of my friends in Ontario that has 10-12 years of French from grade school to high school could not carry a conversation in French.
We are thinking about moving to Vancouver, not because the BA has expensive housing, horrible public transportation, or terrible public schools. But because of the lack of good and reasonably priced Cantonese food! (Just to wait an hour to get into Koi Palace is a joke, the cheaper places are usually horrible.)
I must say that DL learned something from Greenspan. Make a mess and leave it for someone to clean up. At the same time get paid in dollars, adulation etc to do so.
And here I am, trying to figure out the best design so that people who come after me will not have code maintenance issues. No wonder I don't get paid as much.
HARM,
FWIW Ben ran a thread on Sunday on Spinning Sound Solutions to the HB and remarkably there was a great consensus on MID/CG exemption! True a few dismissed/defended these sacred cows but were soundly thrashed/de-bunked. If you've time, well worth the read.
My commute consists of about 20 steps to my office at home. Working at home is the way to go. Why don't more BA employers offer that? Are they afraid people won't do the work?
Better to have Loonies than USPs (US Pesos). I predict a return to pre WWII levels for the Loonie. It takes 2 USPs to get 1 Loonie!
StuckInBA: You have lost The Way; I suggest a re-reading of the "Quotes of the Klingon Programmer".
This morning, 101S to the 92 was absolutely packed at almost 10am. From what I could see in my mirror, the 92 overcrossing also looked fugly. For working from home, I can see it in some cases, but not for when I need to interact with people.
OTOH, if work was willing to provide me a videoconferencing setup with a 50" TV in my end and a robot w/ camera and mike on their end, then I'd do it more.
DinOR,
Thanks, I'll check it out. Sad to hear about the 'ol LiarRealtor deserting his post like that. What's up, I wonder?
Theory #1: Caught in one too many lies? Not possible --the NAR only cares when its Chief Minister of Propaganda doesn't lie. The bigger the whopper, the better.
Theory #2: Cannot handle DavidLereahwatch.com breaking his poor mother's heart. Not likely. He loves the opportunity it gave him to publicly play "victim". It's also not clear whether he or his mom actually has a heart to break.
Theory #3: Wants to "spend more time with his family". The ultimate non-reason for people who are leaving their jobs for reasons they cannot discuss publicly. In any case, if DL was your dad, would you really want to spend more time with him? I rest my case.
Theory #4: Rat leaving a sinking ship / taking the last lifeboat off the Titanic. Bingo --this one's my choice. Also notice how Greedspan passed the "baton" (lit dynamite stick) to HeliBen conveniently just before the housing bubble completely ran out of juice. So who wants to be the new NAR "Baghdad Bob" in the teeth of a secular bear market? Anyone, anyone... Bueller...?
I am not sure if the effect of global warming is all linear and predictable with a simple weather pattern shift.
You'd assume that most of Australia lying in the sub-tropical and temperate zone to get warmer? Well no, my parents told me that northeastern Australia (which is closer to the equator) is getting cooler, and drier compared to before. They haven't seen a drop of rain for a long time. Queenslanders worry about getting killed by thirst before intense heat waves. Melbourne, which is in the temperate zone, had a summer snow last year.
BA's 06 summer was sure hot, but we are having a cooloer-than-usual spring here as well. If global warming is truly a scientific fact rather than political PR scam, all we can say is, we don't know what kind of impact it will have on local weather patterns.
Driver who crashed in Oakland involved in previous hit-and-run crashes.
You would think they do a background truck for people who drives gasoline turcks, this guy is quite decorated.
CB,
is Sun Sui Wah still the place to go in Richmond BC? Where do you go for good Cantonese food up there?
I don't mind living in Vancouver except for the horrible commie medical system that puts you on a perpetual wait for any major treatment.
If global warming is truly a scientific fact rather than political PR scam, all we can say is, we don’t know what kind of impact it will have on local weather patterns.
That is a big IF. Perhaps global warming is caused by pseudo-scientific shit-stirring.
I don’t mind living in Vancouver except for the horrible commie medical system that puts you on a perpetual wait for any major treatment.
You come South for treatment. Advanced medicine in America welcomes you, as long as you can pay up.
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Now that global warming is a fact, who benefits? Why, the Canadians, of course. They have vast areas of land that are becoming more pleasant as global temperatures rise. It may be the right time to snap up millions of acres of uninhabited land at bargain prices before the rest of the world figures it out.
Come to think of it, rising temperatures make most of Russia more habitable as well.
Go north, young man!
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